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Below are the characters eligible for Nightmare Shift in the fifth dungeon:

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(IV) Scarmiglione

Difficulty: 100

Part 1

Stamina 20, Rounds 1

【Rewards: First Time / Completion / Mastery】

Hero’s Soul, Major White Orb x1

30000 Gil

Major Wind Orb x2, Major Holy Orb x2

【Target Score】

Defeat Scarmiglione without being KO’d.

Exploit Scarmiglione’s weakness to holy attacks.

Do not use fire attacks against Scarmiglione.

Scarmiglione

HP

~187000

Elements

WEAK

Fire / Holy

ABSORB

Ice / Earth

RESIST

–

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Break Resistance

Power

RESIST

Armor

RESIST

Magic

RESIST

Mental

RESIST

Debuff Vulnerabilities

Slow / Stop

Abilities

Attack: Deal physical damage to one target.Curse Elegy: Slow on all targes.Gas: Poison, Silence, Blind and Sleep on all targets.Thundaga: Deal heavy lightning damage to one target.Thundaga: Deal heavy lightning damage three times to one target.Thundaga: Deal heavy lightning damage to all targets.

Strategy

Reduce his magic because Thundaga can hurt otherwise. Other than that a pretty straightforward fight.

Attack: Deal physical damage to one target.Osmose: Reduce the ability uses of one target.Drain: Deal damage to one target, gaining a proportion as HP.DeBarrier: Removes Protect, Shell, Reflect from one target.

Unlike previous versions of Gi Nattak, the Soul Fires in this fight are now able to cast an AoE Fira so do take note that it won’t be a straightforward Carbuncle cheese. Make sure you have Shellga up and also AoE heals.

Photon Spray: Deal non-elemental damage to one target eight times in a row.Explosion: Deal magic damage to all targets, proportional to their maximum HP.Tail Screw: Deal magic damage to all targets, proportional to their current HP. (trigger: physical and black magic attacks)

Altana Lenses are undead, so recovery spells will deal damage to them.

Phase 2 ends when Evrae is defeated.

When Evrae is defeated, it will use Explosion (25% of your Max HP as damage), followed by Explosions (40% of your Max HP as damage) from any Lenses left alive.

In my opinion I think this is the hardest phase of the fight, mainly because of the potential damage you will be taking. Definitely pay more attention here.

Phase 2 works as such: Evrae will “link” itself to an Altana Lens (refer to this image, I shall call the top Lens, Lens 1). Evrae will use Photon Spray once before switching to another Lens. The Lenses here do nothing. However, they will give Evrae’s Photon Spray additional effects.

You definitely want to kill the Lenses before killing Evrae, unless you are confident in tanking all 5 explosions (which I highly doubt). I recommend killing Lens 3 and Lens 4 first so you don’t have to deal with potential Petrification/Silence shenanigans.

If you use Dispel on Lens 2, it temporarily loses its damage boost to Photon Spray (DIspel only works on Lens 2)

If you use Esuna on Lenses 1, 3, or 4, it temporarily loses its debuff attachment to Photon Spray (similarly, Esuna only works on Lenses 1, 3 and 4)

If you use Raise (or any other KO type moves) on a Lens, it will counter with Explosion (40% of your max HP as damage).

If you have access to multiple AoE heals, KO’ing the Lenses with Raise/MaRaise is a viable (or even recommended) strategy. You can control the explosions and end the phase much faster than if you were to defeat the Lenses one by one with regular holy spells.

By the time Phase 2 ends, your party will most probably be low on HP from the explosion(s). Pre-casting a heal (or AoE heal) right before Phase 2 ends is a good idea.

PHASE 3: Evrae Altana + Guado Guardian

In this phase a Guado Guardian will be summoned to aid Evrae Altana, buffing him and inflicting Poison on Evrae with Bio. When Guado Guardian dies, a new one spawns, this happens for a few times.

At this point you just have to nuke Evrae down while also making sure to remove any Poison debuff on it. You may want to bring Dispel to remove his Shell so that your spells hit harder.

Special mention: thanks to tfmurphy for confirming some of Evrae’s AI.